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Local resident says Bury council “half-filled” pothole after the incident

Claim for £102 from August 2015 finally paid out last month following court ruling

Victim said that if traffic had been moving, he would have been tweeting from A&E

Incidents all happened in space of three weeks - Staffordshire County Council had inspected defect days before the first casualty

Residents of Plumtree in Nottinghamshire have been urging council to fix defect for two years

Highway teams do not have the money to arrest ‘terminal decline’ of local roads according to Asphalt Industry Alliance

Local Government Association says 2017 could be ‘tipping point’ for the problem

Ralph Brazier died after hitting pothole in March

Charity says roads for long distance traffic are being resurfaced while local roads are “left to rot and crumble”

However, road safety experts say this figure needs to be 240 times bigger to tackle dangerously poor road surfaces